A Little Primer of Chinese Oracle-Bone Inscriptions with Some

A Little Primer of Chinese Oracle-Bone Inscriptions with Some Exercises

This Little Primer introduces students of classical Chinese to the earliest extant body of Chinese texts dating from about the 13th to the 10th centuries BC. These texts are known as Oracle-Bone Inscriptions and relate to any matter that was deemed sufficiently important to require consultation with the ancestors and deities of the Shang aristocracy.

Indispensable to the study of the history of Chinese religion, politics, agriculture, the calendar system, hunting, warfare, medicine, sacrificial and ritual practices, and other matters of life in China's first historical dynasty, these more than 130,000 pieces of inscribed turtle plastrons and bovine scapulas, though mostly fragmented ones, comprise more text in terms of number of characters than the combined transmitted traditional pre-QÃn classical Chinese texts.

The material will be presented in three forms: normalized transcriptions of the texts into modern standard Chinese script, translations into English, and ink-squeezes or rubbings of the original texts. There is also a detailed linguistic and philological explanation of the text, plus an annotation, and commentary on the cultural and historical background of the material. No special background in analyzing grammar and syntax will be required to understand most, if not all, of the materials presented in this Little Primer.
Country USA
Brand Harrassowitz
Manufacturer Harrassowitz Verlag
Binding Paperback
ItemPartNumber 42206041
EANs 9783447103565
ReleaseDate 0000-00-00

Country	USA
Brand	Harrassowitz
Manufacturer	Harrassowitz Verlag
Binding	Paperback
ItemPartNumber	42206041
EANs	9783447103565
ReleaseDate	0000-00-00

A Little Primer of Chinese Oracle-Bone Inscriptions with Some Exercises

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